Art 200 Exam I Review
What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence?
It depicts a Muslim woman in black chador, a rifle dividing and Farsi text inscribed over her face, showing her as liberated and equal to men.
According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?
Reception, extraction, and inference
What cultural conventions did Robert Maplethorpe challenge in his photographic portraits of female bodybuilders?
The traditional representation of the female nude
What is the chief form of Islamic art?
Calligraphy
What are lines that form the outer edge of a 3D shape and suggests its volume called?
Contour Lines
How does Cherie Samba's "Calvary" use line to draw a parallel between the paint and Christ?
Implied lines are over the artist connecting him with the soldier's imminent whipping
How did Rembrandt create a darkening landscape as the eyes move away from Christ in "The Three Crosses"?
Increasing density
Hung Liu's paintings such as "Three Fujins" rely on contrasting between two very important elements. What are they?
1.) Structural 2.) Uncontrolled drip lines
Who painted Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast?
Albert Bierstadt
How is Sol Le Witt's line in "Wall Drawing 681 C best described?
Analytic
How is Wolf Kahn's Afterglow I compared to Willem de Kooning's North Atlantic Light?
Both paintings are largely concerned with light
What's the type of line used in Van Gogh's Starry Night?
Expressive Line
What are lines that are loose and freeform called?
Gestural Lines
In Pat Steir's The Brueghel Series: A Vanitas of Style, a series of sixty four separate panels are held together by what?
Grid Lines
How did Kenneth Clark know of the world
He owned it
What does Wenda Gu use in her calligraphy?
Human hair
Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife Giovanna Cenami, like Rene Magritte's the Treason of images, is concerned with?
Images that are not literally what they appear to be
Van Gogh builds up his lines in thick, bold strokes that possess an almost structural quality known as what?
Impasto
What are the name of lines that create a sense of movement and direction?
Implied lines
What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?
It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it
Jacques Louis David's The Death of Socrates is set up in a system of right angles on a grid structure. How does this affect the content of this piece?
It reiterates the nationality of Socrates' actions
Fro where do you know about Vincent van Gogh's thoughts on his work, "The Sower"?
Letters he wrote
Dunhuang is the site of a great collection of early Chinese art that fills what place?
Magao Caves
The symbolic hand gestures that refer to specific states of mind or events in the life of Buddha are called?
Mudras
When a work does not refer to the natural or objective world at all, it is called?
Nonobjective
Hung Liu studied and taught painting with a strict classical line that is associated with what style?
Russian Social Realism
Kazmir Malevich called his art what?
Suprematism
Beatriz Milhazes's Carambola is based on?
The Square
Yoshitomo Nara's "Dead Flower" contrasts it's menacing subject with the use of a heavy associated with what?
The cuteness of juvenile style
Titan's Assumption and Consecration of the virgin demonstrate the power of?
The lines of sight
On what basis did a cincinnati jury acquit the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and its director of obscenetryy in showing an exhibition of Robert Maplethorpe's work?
The work possessed serious value
